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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES W. I-IUTT AND ARTHUR J. PHILLIPS, OF TORONTO, CANADA.

PRINTING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 480,467, dated August9, 1892.

Original application tiled January 2, 1891, Serial No. 376,508. Dividedand this application tiled August 7, 1891. Serial No. 402,051. (Nomodel.)

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Beit known that we, JAMES WILLIAM HUTT and ARTHUR JAMES PHILLIPS, of thecity of Toronto, in the county of York, in the Province of Ontario,Canada, have jointlyinvented a new and Improved Printing Apparatus, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The obj ect of this improvement is 'to provide a printing apparatusdesigned, mainly, to be used in our machine for the manufacture of paperboxes, shown in our application filed January 2, 1891, Serial No.376,508, of which this application is a division; and the inventionconsists in the peculiar construction, arrangement, and combinations ofparts hereinafter more particularly described and then definitelyclaimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l shows a perspective view of amachine for making boxes provided with our printing apparatus. Fig. 2 isa perspective View of the inking apparatus. Figs. 3 and 4 are details ofthe same on a larger scale. Fig. 5 isa side View of the platen, bed&c.,partly in section. Fig. 6 is a detail showing some of the gearingdetached. Fig. 7 is a plan of the inking-rollers and one of theink-founts and its immediate connections.

In order to better explain our invention, we have shown a general viewof the machine in which the same is employed; but as the machine as aWhole is not claimed herein, we shall only refer to it brieliy and limitthe detail description to that part of the apparatus herein claimed.

Oui` apparatus taken as a whole comprises a device for feeding theblanks, an apparatus to print said blanks, and aboX-forming apparatuswhich makes the blanks into boxes and is provided with an apparatus toform and insert a bail into the boxes as theyare made.

In constructing our machine We have endeavored to make the mechanism assimple and effective as possible and have arranged it so that thereshall be absolutely no handling from the time the pile of blanks islirst placed in the machine until the box or pail is discharged,complete in every respect.

In our machine the pile of blanks is placed on top of an elevatoroperated by mechanism which will raise the pile, as required, to keepthe top blank in reach of the picker. This picker is designed to raisethe top blank and place it upon a carrier so operated by mechanism thatthe instant the blank is placed upon it it travels to a point whereprinting mechanism is placed, and which is timed to print and instantlyrelease the blank, so that it may be conveyed by the carrier to a pointWhere a plunger is arranged to instantly come down upon the blank andforce it through folding-cams into a position where mechanism is locatedto form and clamp a wire bail onto the box or pail, which at this periodis complete, and is then nested with preceding pails and forced into thedischarge-spout.

We have thus given a general idea of our machine as a whole, and willnow describe in detail that part of our invention herein claimed.

Z is the platen, held rigidly to the frame A of the machine, asindicated in Fig. l. Immediately below the platen a type-bed a islocated on which thetypeis held. A longitudinally-moving rod b ispivoted to the type-bed a (see Fig. 5) and after passing through aguiding bracket 86 rests upon and is supported by the cam d, iixed tothe shaft A. The friction-roller e is placed on the end of the rod Z).The mechanism shown and which gives motion to the rod b is so timed thatat the proper moment when the blank should be printed the type-bed a ismoved up so as to cause its type to act upon the blanks. The weight ofthe platen and its connections will sometimes be sufficient to keep theroller ein contact with the cam but to make this sure we provide springs94, the upper ends of which are connected to the rod b and their lowerends to the bracket S6. The shaft X derives its motion from the mainshaft A2 through the vertical shaft jwhich is arranged as shown in Fig.6. A beveled pinion g is fixed to the shaft-Xand meshes with a piniong', fixed to the shaft h, which extends to and is geared with the shaft,which, as shown in Fig. 2, is geared to the inking-rollers j. Onreference to this figure it will be observed that we have an inkingapparatus with a fount le at each end. The rollers m, which distributethe ink on their ink-roller j, derive a longitudinal motion by means ofthe piv- IOO oted lever fn, (see Fig. 4,) the ends of which are providedwith pins to fit int-o the grooved rollers 85, fixed to the spindle ofeach distributing-roller m. r1`he pivot-pin of this lever has a crank ofixed to it, which crank is connected to and operated by the cam @whichis fixed to and revolves with the shaft i.

The ink is conveyed from the fount-rollers 57 to the rollers j by therollers 58. Each end of the rollers 58 is journaled on a crank-arm 78 onthe shaft 59. At one end the shaft 59 projects and has fixed to it thecrank-arm 79, having a projecting friction-roller 80, (see Figs. 3 and7,) designed to engage with the cam-disk 60, which in revolving carriesthe arm 79 over so as to move the roller 58 from the roller 57 to theroller j, While the spring 6l moves it back. The other side of the cam60 engages With a friction-roller 90, projecting from the slide 62,whichis supported on a stud 83 and the projecting end 8l of the spindle ofthe. roller 57 on which a ratchet-Wheel 64is fixed. A pawl 63 is pivotedon the slide 62 and engages with the ratchet-Wheel 64. As the cam-disk60 revolves it pushes the slide 62 against the spring 65, which springis supported on a rod 91, running in a bracket 92, and pushes the slideback as the formation of the cam-disk 60 permits. As the pawl 63 engageswith the ratchet 64, the said ratchetwheel 64 must revolve, causing thefountroller 57 to gather ink from the fount la. The mechanism is timedso that the roller 57 is revolving when the roller 58 comes in contactwith it. As the distance which the roller 57 revolves depends upon thenumber of teeth which the paWl 63 passes over, and as this is regulatedby the length of the travel of the slide 62 We provide an adjustablestop 66, which comes in contact with a projection 84 on the slide 62,thus limiting the backward motion thereof, so that the cam-disk 60 shallhave more or less elfect on the slide 62, as may be desired. In this Waythe quantity of ink to be gathered by the roller 57 may be regulated.

The rollers q, which distribute the ink over the face of the type, aresuitably supported on bearings in the slide 97, as indicated in Fig. 2,by the guide-bars r, and are operated by rods s, (see Figs. 1 and 7,)which are pivotally connected at one end to the studs 98 on the slide 97and at the other end to the rocking arm t, which is supported in asuitable bearing 93, formed on the frame of the machine, as indicated inFig. l, and has a crank u fixed to it, which crank is designed to engagewith the cam o, which is geared to and operated by the shaft A2, asindicated in Fig. 1, and is so shaped that it will impart the necessaryrocking movement to the rocking arm t, as is required to cause therollers q to travel backward and forward at the proper intervals acrossthe face of the type supported on the bed c, taking ink first from oneroller j and then from the other, moving only once for each impression.

With the view of preventing the blank being carried against the platenZ, We provide a curved guard 89, which directs below said platen anyblank which might accidentally be raised too high. In connection withthis apparatus we use a carrier L, which carries the blank under theplaten, and which carrier is operated by the lever N, carried by therock-shaft O, and operated by a cam R, which gives it motion through thearm P and rod Q. hook S, that holds the blank in position thereon. At Zis shown a finger, also used for holding the blank in place, whichfinger extends frorn a rock-shaft U and is operated from the main shaftby a cam through the lever. V. As all of the devices described in thisparagraph relate more particularly to the feeding mechanism claimed inour application, Serial No. 402,050, and are not claimed herein, afurther description of these parts is unnecessary.

No claim is herein made to the box-making apparatus proper nor to thefeeding devices, as the former is claimed in our application, Serial No.376,508, before referred to, and the latter is claimed in anotherapplication, filed August 7, 1891, Serial No. 402,050.

1. The shaft X, geared to the vertical shaft f, which derives its motionfrom the main shaft A, and a shaft lz., geared to the shaft X and to theshaft z', in combination with the fountroller 57, the inking-'rollers J,geared to and deriving motion from the shaft '11, and a camdisk 60,fixed to the shaft 11 and operating the roller 58, substantially as andfor the purpose specified.

2. The roller 58, journaled at each end on a crank-arm 7 8, andthecrank-ar1n79,fixed tothe shaft of the crank-arm 78 and having aprojecting friction-roller 80, in combination with the revolving cam 60and' spring 61, substantially as and for the purpose speci-fied.

3. A ratchet-wheel 64, fixed to the spindle 81 of the roller 57, and apaWl 63, pivoted on the slide 62 and engaging with the ratchet-wheel 64,in combination with the cam-disk 60 and spring 65, arrangedsubstantially as and for the purpose specified.

4. The combination, with the roller 57, ratchet-Wheel 64 on the shaft ofsaid roller 57, the slide 62, carrying a pawl, the spring 65, and meansfor giving said slide motion in opposition to the spring, of anadjustable stop 66, arranged and operating substantially as described.

5. The combination, with the platenZ and means for feeding the blanksunder the-same, of an upwardly-curved guard 89, arranged substantiallyas and for the purpose specified.

Toronto, July 22, 1891.

JAMES W. HUTT. ARTHUR J. PHILLIPS. In presence of- A. M. NEFF, T. E.ROBERTSON.

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